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State Bar of Texas

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    October 25, 2007
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    September 27, 2007

    A Devil's Deal in Dallas Court

    A terrible crime plus skaky evidence tempts prosecutors to play a secret game of "let's make a deal"

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    July 17, 2003

    The Girl Who Played Dead

    The untold story of the 1990 bathtub shooting

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    October 12, 2000

    Deadbird

    How vicious racial politics, mismanagement, and dirty dealing turned Dallas' Redbird Airport into a Third-World airfield

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    June 29, 2000

    Killing machine

    It is 6:07 p.m. John Albert Burks salutes the Oakland Raiders and says goodbye to his friends. Minutes later, he is a dead man. This year's 21st execution.

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    March 30, 2000

    Reasonable doubt?

    Dallas lawyer Catherine Shelton on her troubled pastand the Rowlett murder she says she didn't commit

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    July 9, 1998

    Deathtrap

    While Erica Sheppard sits on death row, penniless and convicted of a gruesome murder, her cadre of elite Dallas lawyers tries to prove that the justice system has gone fatally awry

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    January 23, 1997

    Fight or flight?

    Denton man claims he's in jail because attorney Brian Loncar failed to show up in court

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    August 24, 1995

    Who's afraid of Robert rose?

    At the Dallas County Courthouse, everybody. David Pasztor explains why

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